I also have to catch up on the new Dirk Gently series and season 4 of Orphan Black, both on BBC America's website.

Except for live sports, there really is no reason to have a traditional cable package anymore, as long as you're willing to wait for what you want to come to one of the other services. Game of Thrones is the only thing I still have to watch immediately, as it is being broadcast, and that only requires a couple months of HBO NOW each year.

Every year I hope some random channel will decide to play the one Christmas movie I haven't been able to watch since I was in middle school and our VHS copy burned out on us, "The Night They Saved Christmas". Every year I'm disappointed.

Attack on Titan is even better the second time through, when you catch all of the clues that were there from the beginning. Shonen manga/anime is not usually this subtle. Even the murals shown during the end credits are full of clues.

I recently caught up with the ongoing S2 of The Expanse. The show was good last year, but it's surpassed itself in my opinion. The space battles, the political intrigue, the characterizations, everything's gotten tighter and richer. It reminds me a bit of the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series, except maybe even better, as it's based on well-plotted novels, not on a concept with no clear goal in sight. I find myself not rooting for any of the characters in particular, but rooting for this universe to succeed. Although that New Zealander boxer steals every scene she's in!

The only thing is that I never realized before how much Thomas Jane looks like Jon Stewart.

Netflix is going to stop streaming Danger 5 on March 9th, so I've been trying to see all of it before that happens. I finished up Season 1 last night.

It's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever watched. If you haven't heard of it, it's an Australian series about an Allied commando unit during World War II. Sort of. Throw in some 1960s British sci-fi/espionage, Japanese tokusatsu, and a crapton of anachronism, and you'll start to get the picture. Danger 5 get their orders from a Colonel Chestbridge, who has the head of a bald eagle and wears a jacket like the one Patrick McGoohan wore on The Prisoner, so historical accuracy of any sort should not be expected.

"Kill Hitler!"

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"Experience in the acquisition of European languages can help you to learn Japanese about as much as it could help you to acquire the language spoken by the inhabitants of Mars." — Lafcadio Hearn

^ Yeah, I just watched the Season 2 trailer. I loved Season 1, but then again, I do enjoy random absurdity. It remains to be seen how well Season 2 will stack up in my opinion, but it looks promising.

Neither the 1940s nor the 1960s are known for being low on cigarette smoke, except insofar as wartime shortages were concerned, so I'd actually consider the heavy smoking to be one of the (very few) historically accurate elements.

"Experience in the acquisition of European languages can help you to learn Japanese about as much as it could help you to acquire the language spoken by the inhabitants of Mars." — Lafcadio Hearn